ED’s summons, cancellation of trains cannot crush TMC’s demonstration in Delhi : Abhishek

PTI, Sep 30, 2023, 7:00 PM IST

TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee Saturday asserted that the party cannot be scared off from its political programmes by summons by central agencies and vowed to go ahead with protests in Delhi against the withholding of funds for Bengal’s MGNREGA and housing projects for the poor by the federal government.

Banerjee alleged the Centre is trying to “crush” the movement of the poor people of West Bengal in Delhi by cancelling trains and “deploying ED and CBI”.

“But it (the measures) will backfire,” the TMC parliamentarian said in a virtual address to party workers before the start of a 1600 km journey to Delhi by a convoy of buses.